Radio New Zealand audio
Radio New Zealand’s Our Changing World programme features interviews with researchers covering topics such as science, environment and health.
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Bee-friendly insecticides
17 Apr, 2014
University of Otago geneticist Peter Dearden is using the bee genome to develop a bee-friendly insecticide.
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Clean technology
13 Mar, 2014
Clean-tech company CarbonScape has developed and patented microwave technology to convert biomass into high-value carbon products, including activated carbon and coking fuel known as green coke.
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Testing for Legionnaires’ disease
06 Mar, 2014
Legionnaires’ disease is a severe form of pneumonia. In New Zealand, it is most commonly associated with gardening activities. Christchurch Hospital now tests every pneumonia patient for Legionnaires’ disease.
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The CSI effect and forensic science
09 Jan, 2014
Television dramas like CSI, Bones and Criminal Minds – can create false expectations and impressions of forensic science, especially in the courtroom.
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Food provenance
05 Sep, 2013
A chemical fingerprinting process, which enables verification of the origin of New Zealand produce, has been developed by Dunedin company Oritain.
